At work we're currently expanding to another country. Which means that many services now need a country label etc., which is fun when you're adding "no" to all our existing services. Luckily it's quick to catch, but man... why?
// comments!
({
no_quotes: [1, 2, (() => /* code! */)()],
...
})
({foo, bar, ...kwargs}) => ({
datacenter: foo === 'old' ? 'useast1' : 'uswest',
...
})
({
// This is very much like JSON
"foo": [1, 2, "bar"]
})
{
'foo': [1, 2, 'bar']
}
import json
import sys
# Yay, comments!
json.dump({
# more comments!
'foo': [1, 2, 'bar']
}, sys.stdout)"source" config --> convert to JSON config "on the fly" --> app that expects JSON
edit: I worked on a C++ team that used `std::system` to invoke the system python interpreter when loading a config file. My teammates weren't morons, either, it's just the simplest thing that worked and they knew that the config script and the surrounding file system were secure.